The publication focuses on three core areas for implementing responsible investment:

- Explaining why individual asset owners should take action, and how their actions can reinforce and amplify the actions of others.

- Describing how asset owners can give real substance and effect to their responsible investment commitments, mapping the process of investment policy formulation and development as well as the core items linking contemporary systemic developments to mainstream investment policy;

- Presenting examples from asset owners, offering reflections on their processes, the lessons they have learned and the value that they have achieved through responsible investing.

“Rather than be side-lined as a separate policy, ESG should be integrated as part of any mainstream investment practice because integration enables stronger alignment between material ESG factors and mainstream policy considerations.”

“PRI’s Investment Policy Guide provides asset owners a concise and implementable framework for integrating all material ESG considerations into the investment policy,” said Linda Mateza, Head of Investments & Actuarial Services, The Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), South Africa.